Top Greek Schools

[alum]

Originally Posted by Tom Earp

Are You talking about the Un. Of the South In Tenn.?

Located on Mont Eagle, East of Chattanooga and West of Nashville?

Called The Harvard of The West?

It is a Parochial School, Small, but Highly Thought of.

I always thought the Harvard of the West was Stanford! I never considered Tennessee as being in the west. The University of the South IS a good, "more selective" LAC, lots of merit aid for super students. It is affiliated with the Episcopal Church.

Is the Kappa Delta chapter colonizing with brand new women or are they taking over a local org? We know a lovely young woman entering the freshman class.

[kddani]

Originally Posted by alum

Is the Kappa Delta chapter colonizing with brand new women or are they taking over a local org? We know a lovely young woman entering the freshman class.

Kappa Delta has been on the campus for several years.

[Tom Earp]

Originally Posted by alum

I always thought the Harvard of the West was Stanford! I never considered Tennessee as being in the west. The University of the South IS a good, "more selective" LAC, lots of merit aid for super students. It is affiliated with the Episcopal Church.

Is the Kappa Delta chapter colonizing with brand new women or are they taking over a local org? We know a lovely young woman entering the freshman class.

Check Your Quotes.

Yes it is an Episcopalian Related School.

Small and lonely on The Mont!

Haven not been able to find web site.

Anyone upon it?

Will try a remember it and look for it?

Where us it it?

[alum]

Originally Posted by Tom Earp

Check Your Quotes.

Yes it is an Episcopalian Related School.

Small and lonely on The Mont!

Haven not been able to find web site.

Anyone upon it?

Will tryb top remember it and look for it?

Tom, Ask and you shall receive:
http://www.sewanee.edu/

Danielle,
So sorry! On the introduction section to this link, it implies that KD is new. I guess Sewanee needs to update this section.
http://www2.sewanee.edu/studentlife/...s#anchor573397

[trideltrockstar]

Originally Posted by DWAlphaGam

I went to Lafayette, and I am also perplexed as to why we're in the top 20. I think the greek percentage has dropped to about 35-40% from 60% my freshman year (so it's dropped 20-25% in 5 years). There have been 4 fraternities kicked out in the past 6 or 7 years. The administration and the community can't stand the greeks and have been trying to kill the greek social scene (which is pretty much the only social scene at Lafayette) over the past few years as well. Plus, we only have about 2500 students, 6 sororities (2 of which are well under chapter total, which is 75), and 8 fraternities (their numbers range from about 80 to 5 brothers). Maybe the Princeton Review needs to do their research again.

I go to Lafayette College...Since this post in 2002, 2 more fraternities have been kicked off campus. We only have 6 frats and 6 sororities now. The administration HATED Greeks, however last year a new college president took office and he has done a lot for the Greek community. He is willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, whereas in the past, the administration/public safety specifically had it out for the greeks.

It is true that the Greek scene is huge at Lafayette and does encompass most of the social scene. Our chapter total for sororities is still 75...5 out of the 6 sororities are at this cap or are close to it. Fraternities vary in terms of number of members.

[macallan25]

Why the hell did all of my posts get deleted out of this topic??? That is pretty much fucking bullshit. I kept to the topic and didn't make any posts that were offensive in the least bit. Or did the piece of shit moderator delete them because MY list of top Greek schools were all located in the South? Sorry, I didn't realize being opinionated was grounds for having all of your posts deleted. Actually, after looking it over.....you deleted every post from those that argued that the top greek schools were all in the South. How about you grow the hell up.

Sorry for the language but that is absolutely ridiculous.

Again, that original list is a load of crap. Centre College??, UC -Boulder?????? No Ole Miss in the top friggin 20????????? I have never even heard of centre college...and from what I hear from my friends at Colorado.....the greek system sucks and is reserved for douchebags and surfers from California. I could go on forever........but those two stuck out.

..........and Tom........The University of the South is Sewanee, not Washington and Lee

[breathesgelatin]

Last year at W&L, 85% of freshmen women pledged a sorority and 90% of freshmen men pledged a fraternity. Those numbers are hard to beat... Plus there was the recolonization of SigEp.

Rest assured that grade inflation at W&L is non-existent. Just keep in mind that W&L women's grades tend to be better than W&L men's grades. Also, like most prestigious universities, people work very hard to maintain at least a B average. To compete for As is very extremely difficult and at the top echelons of the school there is quite a bit of grade competition. I should know.

[breathesgelatin]

Originally Posted by ucfpnm

They have a TON of fraternities (15) but only 5 sororities. And the sorority GPAs are excellent.

To be correct, there are 14 NIC fraternities, 5 NPC sororities, and two NPHC groups (1 fraternity and 1 sorority).

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by macallan25

Why the hell did all of my posts get deleted out of this topic??? That is pretty much fucking bullshit. I kept to the topic and didn't make any posts that were offensive in the least bit. Or did the piece of shit moderator delete them because MY list of top Greek schools were all located in the South? Sorry, I didn't realize being opinionated was grounds for having all of your posts deleted. Actually, after looking it over.....you deleted every post from those that argued that the top greek schools were all in the South. How about you grow the hell up.

Sorry for the language but that is absolutely ridiculous.

Again, that original list is a load of crap. Centre College??, UC -Boulder?????? No Ole Miss in the top friggin 20????????? I have never even heard of centre college...and from what I hear from my friends at Colorado.....the greek system sucks and is reserved for douchebags and surfers from California. I could go on forever........but those two stuck out.

..........and Tom........The University of the South is Sewanee, not Washington and Lee

Because conversations about the South are "off topic" and convos about grade inflation are on topic.

Quite frankly any list that leaves out the UofI isn't a good one.

[breathesgelatin]

Originally Posted by VT Tri-D

Washington and Lee (#1) has only a little over a thousand student. Almost 80% of their campus is Greek because you can have little to no social life if you are not. I wonder if this is why they are ranked first-- because such a large majority of people are Greek?

Washington & Lee actually has nearly 2000 undergraduate students, plus around 300 in the law school.

My understanding is that the Greek life ranking is based on both percentage of those involved in Greek life and the responses given by students on surveys. Since most everyone's social life on campus revolves around being Greek (and even non-affiliated students would recognize on a survey that Greek life is the #1 aspect of social life), I would assume that is why W&L is number one.

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Because conversations about the South are "off topic" and convos about grade inflation are on topic.

Quite frankly any list that leaves out the UofI isn't a good one.

Actually the thread concerns top greek schools. Talking about grade inflation concerning Washington and Lee is rather dumb. It is an extremely good school and has pretty tough admissions standard. I would say there are very few people at that school that don't perform well. They shouldn't be ranked first, but it is an extremely fratty school and deserves to be there. An I wasn't having conversations about "The South". I was conversing about top greek schools. Try again chief.


.....and I have been to UofI.....it is not fratty the least bit and I thought the greeks I saw and met wouldn't make it into a top chapter in the South if their life depended on it.

[breathesgelatin]

Originally Posted by macallan25

They shouldn't be ranked first, but it is an extremely fratty school and deserves to be there.

I'll never figure out why people think we shouldn't be ranked first, but whatever.

macallan, do you go to UT? I do.

[AnchorAlum]

Originally Posted by ladybug1116

I'm going to agree with DeltAlum's opinion on the Princeton Review. Because while FSU is a fun school,I don't think we deserve to be that high on the list. We have over 30,000 students with 12-15% Greek....and the Greek System is not completely dominant or influential...at least that's not how I saw it (from both the Independent and then Greek perspective). We also have had quite a few fraternities in serious trouble over the past couple of years and 2 sororities have left campus (due to low numbers) since 1999.

I'm sure the university president is having a fit if he's seen this latest statistic. He is very anti-Greek and has been imposing a lot of rules to try and squelch the Greek System. It is his #1 priority to try and make FSU a "research" university and to change the party school image. From the time I got there (1997) to the time I graduated (2001) you could tell a change in the atmosphere. Don't even get me started....

You're kidding, right? TK is a Phi Delt, and I know for a FACT that he regularly attends PDT alumni get togethers. I'm on an e-mail list of several of his brothers who I am friends with and I see messages back and forth with those guys all the time. He is HUGELY loyal to his fraternity, and there are tons of Greek graduates in our shared general age range who have made millions and who he has persuaded to donate money in the millions.
Of course he wants to make the University better. He's a graduate of the school!
And quite frankly, some of the isht that was going on with the fraternities needed to be squelched. Tell me that the ATO's and SAE's didn't deserve to get the boot for a while? By the way, the ATO's are back and the E's have waaay too many very influential Golden Chief donors not to get back. There's too much partying going on and not enough going to college. Don't get me started on my own house. They couldn't win an award from our national if their lives depended on it, unless it was for most implants or most nights out at Potbellies or most hottie blondes who do nothing but look just a little too South Beach. Oh boy, am I going to be in hot water for that remark. But it's true.

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by breathesgelatin

I'll never figure out why people think we shouldn't be ranked first, but whatever.

macallan, do you go to UT? I do.

Yes...I do.

[breathesgelatin]

Originally Posted by macallan25

Yes...I do.

cool. I'm a grad student.